Science-fiction cinema throughout the 1950s was usually reserved for B pictures; low-risk money makers for the major studios. However, with the threat of Communism reaching high levels of paranoia throughout the United States, the popular genre became the means for a terrifying public service announcement amidst the ‘Red Scare’. Invasion of the Body Snatchers has […]
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I feel like there was a period when Australian films were barely marketed, especially from Australia itself, unless you were really in tune with the indie cinema scene. The Children of Huang Shi, also known as Children of the Silk Road, is one such example: a multi-joint production that quickly disappeared following its dismal box
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Scary movies about spiders pretty much sell themselves as did Itsy Bitsy which was produced last year by Shout! Studio, and has since crawled down the water spout to DVD & Digital in Australia through Eagle Entertainment. Kara is a single mother struggling to raise her two children following an all-too-recent tragedy. She takes a
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Currently available on Blu-ray through the pristinely modest Twilight Time Movies, Don’t Bother to Knock is a touching noir-drama set inside a swanky New York City hotel; a black & white classic ahead of its time regarding the portrayal of mental illness. Starring established leading man Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe and Anne Bancroft, a commercial
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Historical accuracy aside, classic Hollywood war pictures were always well-intended in telling stories of triumph and victory, mostly over Nazi-occupied Europe and while many decades have passed, there’s still an appetite for the heroism of World War II. In 1969, just shy of twenty-five years since the most destructive conflict had ended, it was a
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HP. Lovecraft died in 1937, famed “American writer of weird fiction and horror fiction” as described in Wikipedia. Over eighty years later, his name remains a major selling point for film fans, many of whom have been eagerly awaiting the release of Color Out of Space, now in cinemas across Australia through Umbrella Entertainment partnered
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Online videos go viral on a daily basis as practically everyone has the means and potential to make one; the but stories behind them can vary in comparison, often boiling down to just a moment of silliness being captured on camera. However, in 2014 an ominous video appeared on YouTube of a clown emerging from
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Many of us grew up with that Friday night tradition of heading down to the local video shop where isles of VHS tapes and DVDs would lay await, spoiling us with seemingly endless variety and choice. While some self-proclaimed movie buffs would dream of one day working behind the counter, Melanie Mcinerney went a step
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Captain Clegg was my first escape to the select group of films often referred to as ‘Hammer’s Pirate Movies’ and remains one of my favourites from the British studio. Now thanks to Twilight Time Movies I’ve recently been able to enjoy The Pirates of Blood River, which follows a tattered band of ruthless pirates who
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I’d never thought I would be confronted with the corniness of enjoyed two of my favourite actors, Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, but Eddie Murphy’s incarnation of Rudy Ray Moore, aka Dolemite, did just that. However, the point was not to lampoon a particular brand of “white comedy”, rather than to expose a gap in
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